Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:13:54PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:38:14 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:32:33AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > Grr.  I guessed the problem was to late in the game it seems the problem
> > > is in setup.S  Before we switch to 32bit mode.
> > >
> > > Ok.  There is almost enough for inference but here is a patch of stops
> > > for setup.S let's see if one of those will stop the reboots.
> > >
> > > I have a strong feeling that we are going to find a tool chain issue,
> > > but I'd like to find where we ware having problems before we declare
> > > that to be the case.
> >
> > Looks like it might be a tool chain issue. I took Jean's config file and
> > built my own kernel and I am able to boot the kernel. But I can't boot
> > his bzImage. I observed the same behaviour as jean is experiencing. It jumps
> > back to BIOS.
> 
> I can only confirm that. I installed a more recent system on the same
> hardware, rebuilt a kernel from the same config file, and now it boots
> OK. So it's not related to the hardware. It has to be a compilation-time
> issue.
> 

Hi Jean,

Looks like you have already trashed your setup. If not, is it possible to
upload the output of "objdump -D arch/i386/boot/setup.o"? This will give
some info regarding what assembler is doing.

Thanks
Vivek